"Expanding on previous scholarship, this case study of the Latin American Association of Radio Education (ALER) examines how the medium, conceptualized as “participatory radio,” functions on a transnational level from a social constructionist theoretical framework. Ten weeks of fieldwork were conducted during the summer of 2008, primarily in Quito, Ecuador. Qualitative methods of in-depth interviews, textual analysis, and participant observation were used to explore the following research questions: 1) What does the ALER executive secretariat say about how participatory radio operates on a transnational level? 2) What are the values and meanings shared by ALER executive secretariat staff members that underlie the organization’s operation and transnational radio production? and 3) What do ALER executive secretariat staff members say about their programming and its impact? Findings show that ALER journalists and other executive secretariat staff members share a common vision of their work, based around five themes: collective selfrepresentations, unity, inclusion, transformation, and adaptation. In addition, it was found that new media technologies are changing production practices and that staff members had a mixed view of the association’s impact." (Abstract)